The Top 10 Mistakes Incident Responders Make Combatting Advanced Threats

Overview: Whether they work for an up-and-coming startup or an industry giant, security response teams are under siege as never before. Today's cyber attacks are sophisticated, relentless, and devastating, costing U.S. businesses $8.9 million a year each on average. Attacking in multiple stages across multiple vectors, advanced persistent threats (APTs) and other sophisticated attacks easily evade signature-based detection and other traditional defenses.

Thiswhite paper describes:

• The 10 most common mistakes, strategic and technical, that incident response teams make;
• The effect of these mistakes and how to avoid them with a well-defined incident response plan.